Project SICS

Overview

Project SICS investigates following issues:

• Use wireless mesh as the backbone network for camera surveillance 
• Integrate envrionmental and wearable sensors for intelligent camera control
• Devleop novel applications for assistive living

SICS People

• Faculty: Guanling Chen
• Sc.D. Students: Nan Li
• Alumini: Prabhu Govindaswamy, Homayara Akter

Demo

This demo shows a continuous camera tracking of a person carrying a sensor, and the camera handoff is done automatically based on current location of the mobile sensor.

• Experiment setup
• Video download (168MB)

Documents

• A Measurement Study on Wireless Camera Networks
  Nan Li, Bo Yan, and Guanling Chen
  Second International Conference on Distributed Smart Camera (ICDSC). Stanford, CA, September 2008.

• Continous Camera-based Monitoring for Assistive Environments
  Guanling Chen, Prabhu Govindaswamy, Nan Li, and Jie Wang
  First International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Enviroments (PETRA). Athens, Greece, July 2008.

• Providing Location Privacy in Assisted Living Environment
  Yi Ouyang, Yurong Xu, Zhengyi Le, Guanling Chen, and Fillia Makedon
  First International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Enviroments (PETRA). Athens, Greece, July 2008.

• Early Results on Sensor-Integrated Camera Surveillance
  Prabhu Govindaswamy
  M.S. thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, December 2007.

• Monitoring and Analyzing Outdoor Wireless Networks
  Homayara Akter
  M.S. thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, August 2007.

• Mesh Network Testbed and Video Stream Measurement
  Nan Li
  Course project report, CS 91.564, December 2006.

• Experimental Performance Evaluation of Wireless Local Area Networks Using Machine Learning
  Chun-Yin Liu
  M.S. thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, June 2006.